Sarbanes Oxley Act. Otherwise known as Public companies Accounting reforms and investor protection Act. It was enacted in 2002 in USA after lot of scams come up on accounting framework whereby investors lose faith and confidence on accounting disclosures.

Golden rules of accounting convert complex book-keeping rules into a set of well defined principles which can be easily studied and applied.

Real accounts involve machinery, land and building etc... Similarly when you credit what goes out, you are reducing the account balance when a tangible asset goes out of the organization. Debit All Expenses And Losses, Credit All Incomes And Gains. This rule is applied when the account in question is a nominal account.

Absolutely. Two examples involve unsustainable improvements in working capital (a company is selling off inventory and delaying payables), and another example involves lack of revenues going forward in the pipeline.